Radiation is frequently used as part of the treatment of cancer. ...

Question

Radiation is frequently used as part of the treatment of cancer. The radiation works by damaging DNA and components of the cell.Under what circumstances do you think radiation treatment is a good choice to treat cancer?

Accepted Answer

Hello, everyone and welcome to today's video. So which of the following radiation treatment causes the radiation to travel through the blood to the body's tissues and kill cancer cells. Now, let's go over each of our answer choices so that we may solve this problem. Let's begin with a which is external beam radiation therapy. So this external beam radiation therapy is never going to touch the body and instead it is going to send radiation to destroy tumors. But because we have that it is going, it is supposed to travel through the blood, the as a form of treatment, this is not going to be a true statement. We're going to cancel it out and then we have the biometric modulated art therapy. So this is a type of external beam radiation therapy, health care providers used to treat cancer, but it is not going to travel to the blood, the blood through the body's tissues, killing cancer cells. So we're also going to cancel it out. And then we had this brachy therapy and it's a type of internal radiation therapy in which certain sits, ribbons or capsules are going to contain a radiation source. And these are placed in our bodies near or in the tumor. And this is a local treatment used to treat specific parts of the body. But because it is placed within our bodies, it is allowed to travel through the blood until it reaches the tumor. To answer choice. C brachytherapy is going to be a correct answer for this question. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one.

Struggling with Genetics?

Radiation is frequently used as part of the treatment of cancer. The radiation works by damaging DNA and components of the cell.Under what circumstances do you think radiation treatment is a good choice to treat cancer?

Watch next

Cancer Mutations practice set